3813 - Transportation Hearing

Non Educational

3813 – Transportation Hearing

A parent or guardian of a student over five and under twenty-one years of age or an emancipated minor or student eighteen years of age or older who is not a graduate of a high school or vocational school may make a written request for a hearing before the Board of Education (Board) regarding transportation.

Hearing Procedures:

1. The Board shall give such person a hearing within ten days of receipt of a written request and provide written notice of the hearing to the requesting party.

2. The Board shall make a stenographic record or tape recording of such hearing.

3. The Board shall make a finding and notify the complainant in writing within ten days after such hearing.

4. Such hearing shall be held in accordance with the provisions of C.G.S. Section 4-177 to 4-180 inclusive of the Connecticut General Statutes, known as the Uniform Administrative Procedure Act.

5. Any parent, guardian, emancipated minor, student eighteen years of age or older, or attendance officer aggrieved by the finding of the Board shall, upon request, be provided with a transcript of the hearing within thirty days of such request and may appeal the decision in accordance with state law to the State Board of Education in.

Legal Reference:

Connecticut General Statutes

10-186 Duties of local and regional boards of education re school attendance.

Hearings. Appeals to state board. Establishment of hearing board. Readmission. Transfers

4-176 to 4-180 Uniform Administrative Procedure Act

Policy adopted: October 1987

Revised: June 2019